Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 287 pages of text plus eight tipped-in maps and four other plates within. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt sailing ships on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. The extremities are worn and bumped and the spine ends are chipping. There are silverfish abrasions on both covers and the interior pages are quite foxed. The previous owner's bookplate is inside the front cover and the Title Page is torn at the bottom inside corner. This book may also be lacking an unnecessary frontispiece or flyleaf.